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I need your help to improve my rig

09-27-2011, 02:10 PM

Hello!

I just started playing the BF3 beta, I like it, however it runs like crap on my computer. Even the mouse chugs at 1920X1080 resolution.
So I am a bit sad right now.
I figured that if I post my horribly crappy computer stats right here you nice people could give me some tips on how to improve it.

Are their any other factors that I need to think about performance wise?

I ran BC2 just fine by the way.
I have been thinking about getting a 570GTX and bump up the ram to 8GB, my only worry is that I might need to upgrade the processor aswell.
What do you fine gentlemen and ladies think?

Money is a factor since I am a student, but I'd rather go a bit too high than a bit too low.
Thanks in advance.

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Have you played around with any settings in game to determine which ones relieve your symptoms? This may help determine what sort of processes are causing issues.

Use tools to monitor resource usage.

Windows task manager/performance monitor for CPU usage, and memory

Some third party option for GPU, "GPU-Z" or "MSI afterburner" are my suggestions

Yeah I played around with the settings a bit. It chugged like crazy on medium so I turned everything to low, but that only helped a small amount.
I tried turning off AA and all the other filters without it getting any better. The only thing I did that made the game playable for me was to reduce the resolution to 1280X720. It runs smooth but since my monitor is 1920x1080 native resolution everything is blurry.
The task manager shows no indication that another process is hogging resources.

I'll try and play around with MSI afterburner a bit. Thanks for the tip!

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Lien, why buy a new processor, just overclock the one you have. The I5-750 overclocks brilliantly, you can get that up to near 4GHZ on air cooling easy. Spend £40 on an decent CPU cooler and you are golden. There are lots of easy to follow guides on how to do it. However follow the advice you have been given here and try and diagnose the issue first.

Regarding the GPU, yeah an upgrade would help. As regards RAM, opinions vary but more than 4GBs of RAM is only going to help if you are multitasking while you are gaming or if you edit video etc. More RAM is nice but it won't help with gaming in this instance.

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I would check your GPU usage before purchasing a replacement and if it is at less than 100% usage most of the time then you should look at upgrading you CPU instead or freeing up some more cycles on it. Or creating more cycles like Wickens suggested.

You probably have a USB mouse? Which can show the symptoms of lag if your CPU is being requested by some other process with a higher priority.

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I would check your GPU usage before purchasing a replacement and if it is at less than 100% usage most of the time then you should look at upgrading you CPU instead or freeing up some more cycles on it. Or creating more cycles like Wickens suggested.

You probably have a USB mouse? Which can show the symptoms of lag if your CPU is being requested by some other process with a higher priority.

Well as far as I could see all cores were at 100% Or did you mean my GPU? As far as I can tell (no expert though) I feel like my GPU was struggling, I heard the fan go into overdrive when the game launched.
Yes I have a USB mouse, the one thing I reacted on was that I felt like the mouse movement was stuttering and I have not seen that before. When I was standing still the framerate was choppy as it was but as soon as I used my mouse to look around it felt like it was skipping frames if you get what I mean. When I turned down the res all problems went away.

you should check GPU usage before you go and purchase another one so as to not waste your upgrade funds

also do what Voodoo said if you haven't

Will do!

Update: It seems that I read the processor statistics wrong the noob that I am. All cores seem to be running at about 70-80%. Will check the GPU usage after work.

Update 2: I have now ordered the EVGA GeForce GTX 570 Classified, I read a review and it looks like it will be able to handle BF3 satisfactory (Won't run it on ultra anyways). Hopefully I get it tomorrow.